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March 28, 2024
08:44 PM UTC
Description
Found with spider webs stuck to wing. I got it off as best as I could without damaging the wing more then it already was and put it on a nearby bush.
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March 19, 2024
05:27 AM UTC
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January 28, 2024
10:24 AM PST
Description
Tich (995 - tan tags) being dive bombed by a peregrine falcon!
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March 10, 2024
10:56 PM PDT
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March 5, 2024
04:11 PM UTC
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November 26, 2023
07:07 PM PST
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November 29, 2023
01:44 PM CST
Description
Found in a group on/feeding on willow leaves
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December 18, 2023
03:08 AM UTC
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January 1, 2024
01:02 AM UTC
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March 27, 2022
09:10 AM PDT
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May 7, 2023
09:23 PM PDT
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January 23, 2023
08:27 PM PST
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December 29, 2023
03:26 PM UTC
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December 26, 2023
07:54 AM UTC
Description
private property. was given permission to enter.
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December 19, 2023
10:53 PM UTC
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November 14, 2023
04:12 PM PST
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December 1, 2023
12:06 PM PST
Description
Accidentally scared a burrowing owl off it's prey under a shallow rock overhang.
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December 2, 2023
01:37 PM PST
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November 12, 2023
06:58 PM PST
Description
For scale 10 threads of the sheet equals ~3 mm
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November 12, 2023
07:00 PM PST
Description
For scale 10 threads of the sheet equals ~3 mm
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May 7, 2023
08:38 AM PDT
Description
Beating Baccharis, prey item of lacewing larva, maybe a tingid nymph?
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May 6, 2018
05:09 AM UTC
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May 13, 2020
03:59 PM PDT
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May 23, 2020
03:44 PM PDT
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September 7, 2023
09:47 PM PDT
Description
~4150' elevation.
CA Biodiversity Week Sept 2-10, 2023.
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September 7, 2023
06:39 PM UTC
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March 12, 2022
02:27 AM UTC
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April 2, 2021
07:10 AM PDT
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September 27, 2023
08:49 PM EDT
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October 9, 2023
12:04 PM PDT
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July 31, 2023
05:49 PM PDT
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August 12, 2023
01:57 PM UTC
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October 9, 2023
10:21 PM EDT
Description
Getting dragged out of a hole in the ground by Formica ants.
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October 10, 2023
07:38 AM PDT
Description
About seven of these mites were extracted from live oak leaf litter using a Tullgren funnel, collected with permit PINN-2023-SCI-0005, specimen photos taken at the California Academy of Sciences.
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September 18, 2023
02:15 PM PDT
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September 28, 2023
12:07 AM PDT
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May 11, 2023
09:40 PM PDT
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July 26, 2023
10:09 PM PDT
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June 8, 2015
01:20 PM PDT
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August 17, 2023
07:35 AM PDT
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August 17, 2023
03:10 PM PDT
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August 17, 2023
10:34 PM UTC
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August 17, 2023
10:34 PM UTC
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January 31, 2018
02:03 PM PST
Description
I followed this badger to a burrow, and waited for it to emerge. I sat down still, and it seemed pretty tolerant.
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July 15, 2023
09:54 PM PDT
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July 22, 2023
02:14 PM HST
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June 20, 2023
12:15 PM PDT
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May 7, 2023
03:11 PM PDT
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June 7, 2023
04:36 AM UTC
Description
Most likely Queen, very large
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May 11, 2023
08:35 PM PDT
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May 9, 2023
12:02 PM PDT
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May 9, 2023
04:48 PM PDT
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May 8, 2023
09:06 PM PDT
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May 9, 2023
12:03 PM PDT
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May 9, 2023
04:38 PM PDT
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May 7, 2023
03:16 PM PDT
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May 7, 2023
04:37 PM PDT
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April 10, 2023
06:12 AM UTC
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March 24, 2023
02:32 AM UTC
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March 13, 2023
07:42 AM PDT
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February 3, 2023
02:29 AM UTC
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February 28, 2023
11:50 AM PST
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February 2, 2023
05:14 PM HST
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February 9, 2023
12:46 AM UTC
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February 10, 2023
03:02 PM PST
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February 10, 2023
03:02 PM PST
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February 1, 2023
06:07 AM UTC
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February 1, 2023
12:07 PM PST
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February 3, 2023
07:49 AM UTC
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January 28, 2023
01:39 PM PST
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January 21, 2023
06:45 PM PST
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June 23, 2022
02:32 AM UTC
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May 28, 2020
02:18 AM ADT
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December 23, 2021
05:04 PM UTC
Description
Adela septentrionella? I am studying the mating system of this Adela sp. at Flathead Lake Biological Station. Males engage in combat using long tibial spurs during flight displays and while landed on leaves immediately below. They clearly are trying to fray one another’s wings and also kill rivals. Swarms of 2-6 males occur at the same sites season after season. On my study site, displays occur above Ninebark (Physocarpus malvaceus) leaves while shrubs are in full bloom; males and females drink the nectar. Females, with orange hairdo and shorter antennas, watch male displays, often upwind, from 15 - 20 feet away. Females may be releasing a pheromone that tells males they are being watched and that intensifies male-male combat. Females eventually fly into the male swarm and engage in evasive flight; the least damaged male would be the most likely to capture her. Orange hair helps keep them from being slashed, I hypothesize. Mating occurs below the mating swarm, in plain view, without interference. Fertilized females fight over the most sun-exposed Ocean Spray (Holodiscus discolor) unopened flower inflorescences for oviposition. Traditional display sites have both these shrubs growing contiguously. My observations might be on a slightly disjunct Adela septentrionella population, or that of a subspecies? In spite of much local searching, I have never seen them anywhere except the Biological Station. I have posted two pictures of males and two of females, taken by me.
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May 31, 2022
08:38 PM PDT
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January 8, 2023
05:41 PM HST
Description
Small moth larva (about 8mm long) that I teased out of a leaf mine in Malocathamnus clementinus
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January 7, 2023
11:27 PM PST
Description
Adults (2nd photo combines 4 adults) reared from a batch of caterpillars found on Arctostaphylos sp.
Observation location and date refer to original caterpillar find.
Eclosed: November-December, 2022.
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April 30, 2022
03:51 PM PDT
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May 31, 2021
03:38 PM PDT
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June 5, 2022
05:47 PM PDT
Description
Initial ID is a CV suggestion.
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July 3, 2022
07:34 PM PDT
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December 18, 2022
08:34 PM PST
Description
Visiting flowers on Rough Chervil (Apiaceae: Chaerophyllum temulum). The yellow background is an out-of-focus Creeping Buttercup. :-)
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September 10, 2022
05:57 AM PDT
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December 5, 2022
09:24 AM PST
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November 14, 2022
06:32 AM UTC
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March 25, 2022
09:27 AM PDT
Description
On Nicolletia occidentalis.
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August 28, 2022
01:17 PM PDT
Description
How pretty on Lemmon's Paintbrush (Castilleja lemmonii)
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March 14, 2022
08:49 AM PDT
Description
Squishy croaks. First file: at 00:04 and 00:10 marks. Second file: at 00:14, 00:18, 00:25, 00:29, 00:34, and 00:39 marks.
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July 3, 2022
11:03 PM UTC
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August 28, 2022
01:54 PM PDT
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August 28, 2022
03:52 PM PDT
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October 3, 2022
06:05 PM UTC
Description
Absolute horrible pictures I know, I did not have my good camera on me :(. Got a great look at it through binoculars
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October 4, 2022
04:55 AM UTC
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September 6, 2022
01:53 PM PDT
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July 30, 2022
08:30 PM PDT
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June 17, 2022
10:35 PM PDT
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June 6, 2022
09:43 AM PDT
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May 16, 2022
05:37 PM PDT
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May 20, 2022
04:29 PM PDT
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March 19, 2022
06:14 PM PDT
Description
Much drama - biting tail and neck, etc. - mating or fighting